Source: Rose Navorska
(1) She is married to William Edward Bowles.
They got married on June 29, 1905 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, she was 17 years old.
William Edward Bowles oo Lela Bell Hill
Marriage sources: Marriage registration, (Cleveland OH, 1905)
Divorced.
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Child(ren):
The couple were divorced from before February 10, 1914 at fortasse, Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH.
William Bowles o/o Lela Bell Hill
Divorce source: Navorska, Rose, Sundry talks with David A. Navorska, (Olmsted Twp., Cuyahoga Co., OH, LRBEN., ca. MCMLX) <>
(2) She is married to Ernest Gustave (George) Ebel.
They got married on February 10, 1914 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, she was 26 years old.
Ernest G. Ebel oo Lela Bell Hill
Marriage source: Marriage registration, (Cleveland OH, 1914)
The 1923 adoption papers for the surviving Bowles children has 1913 as yom. <>
Child(ren):
Lela Bell Hill
The spelling, Belle, is found on the earliest document I have found containing Lela's middle name. That document is the wedding license for William Bowles and Lela Belle Hill. That is the only document on which Belle is found. Most documents have her middle initial only.
Family tradition has it Lela Bell was so small at birth that she was placed in a cigar box and placed in the warming oven. Her father's ring could fit on her wrist. This is the story as told by Rose Navorska.
Faith = Protestant. She had all of her children christened a Methodist church in Rocky River, OH.
Places of residence: Cass City, MI; Toledo, OH; Cleveland, OH; Wakeman, OH
Died at the hospital in Berea, OH
Buried at Wakeman Cem. on OH 303 with her 2nd husband, Ernest G. Ebel
Author: Neel, Thomas S.; et al.; Title: Huron Co., OH Cemetery Inscriptions, (Publication site: Norwalk OH, Publisher: HCCOGS, Publication date: MCMXCVII) pg. 895, Repository: Dallas TX pub. lib.
"Wakeman Village Cemetery, Wakeman Twp
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West Section - Row 7
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4 EBEL, Ernest G. 1886-1950 "Our Pa"
Lela B., 1887-1959 "Our Ma" (Ladies Auxiliary, VFW marker)"
Author Leader, Leroy; Title: e-mail to David A. Navorska, (Publication site: somewhere in MI, Publisher: L.L., Publication date; xxx Dec MMII)
"I found the following on the 1930 census
Cuyahoga Co., E.D. 275, sheet 13A, taken April 10, 1930
Ebel, Ernest 44 patrolman, municipal living at 4214 Rocky River Drive
Lela 42
Joseph H. 22 attendant, gas station
Martha B. 20 waitress, restaurant
Lincoln B. 17 clerk, grocery store
Martin H. 15
Annetta 12
Hill, Charles 64 (father-in-law)
Poteet, Raymond 9 boarder
Poteet, William 8 boarder"
Lela's Husbands: 1) William Edward Bowles. 2) Ernest Gustave (George) Ebel
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